Posts Tagged ‘ Teachers ’

Teachers Should Be Person of the Year

I agree with the anonymous high school librarian who writes the Not So Distant Future blog; teachers should be Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Posted by Alexa Harrington (teacher)[ READ MORE ]

When Teachers Get It Right

I’m a cranky bitch, but I’ve always been the sympathetic friend of the underdogs. Because of that, there existed in my cynical little schoolgirl heart a particular love and respect for the (very) few teachers I had in school who could somehow manage to see the person behind my angry, screwed-up friends. [ READ MORE ]

National Geographic’s “Find Your Footprint” Contest

National Geographic and Procter & Gamble have joined forces to hold the "Find Your Footprint"[link] conservation competition for K-12 classrooms[ READ MORE ]

Maybe It’s Better Not to Know What Kids Think

It’s cringe-y and funny and it just upset me and made me laugh until I snurfed green tea out my nose. I think you should read it too. Chag Holland is Cynical Dad and he is capable of making your day better. I help out in my daughter’s class. I used to just do simple [ READ MORE ]

One Must Always Be Learning

We know that you can’t be who you really are in someone else’s language[ READ MORE ]

Diane Ravitch Dares To Keep Thinking

The only humans that can claim open-mindedness are the ones that take in all available information, ponder the hell out of it, and then decide what their opinion is. [ READ MORE ]

Jaime Escalante Battling Cancer

Sometimes we humans get lucky and are able to experience something more than ourselves because someone amazing stood up and fought to make a difference. [ READ MORE ]

Dumb as a Post

My 2nd-grade daughter and I were out for dinner recently. In the booth behind ours, two educators were dining. From their loudly voiced conversation, the entire restaurant was able to put together the facts: The man was a local and was hosting the visiting female teacher, who was in town for some sort of work-related [ READ MORE ]

First Year Teaching

It’s really a question of survival until June, at which point the new teacher takes stock and decides whether to stay or run for the hills. [ READ MORE ]

33 Posts On America’s Education System

Here they are, including some Education Reform posts proving I’m not always in disagreement with President Obama[ READ MORE ]